Abu Khalid al-Turki

Abu Khalid al-Turki (7 July 1980-2 January 2015), born Fikri Iqbal, was a fighter of the Islamic State.

Biography
Fikri Iqbal was born in Gaziantep in southern Turkey to a Sunni Muslim family that originated in Syria. Iqbal was radicalized by an imam and traveled to an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in 1998. He took part in the fighting against the Northern Alliance, where he gained his first combat experience. Iqbal assumed the kunya of Abu Khalid al-Turki, and he became a commander of al-Qaeda suicide squads in Afghanistan. In 2004 he led an attack on an Afghan National Army (ANA) position in Kabul, wounding 5 soldiers. Turki was tracked down by the CIA and a drone strike took out his safehouse in Uruzgan Province, but only his wife and five children were killed. Turki escaped to Pakistan, and in 2012 he arrived in Syria after the start of the Syrian Civil War. Turki became a fighter in the Islamic State when they took over northern Iraq and Syria, and he was involved in heavy fighting in Idlib Governorate. On 2 January 2015, he was killed by the Army of Mujahideen.